Wikileaks

Wikileaks is a website dedicated to bringing transparency to government and corporate affairs by facilitating the publication of secret or restricted documents that are in the public interest.

Bank of America
On 2 February 2011, Wikileaks revealed that Bank of America through its legal representative, Hunton and Williams, contracted "Palantir Technologies, HBGary Federal and Berico Technologies, outline a plan to attack Wikileaks."

Funding or Non-funding
According to Wikileaks critic Steven Aftergood, the Knight Foundation, "rejected WikiLeaks’ request for financial support".

Advisory Board
Accessed October 2007:


 * Phillip Adams, writer, broadcaster & filmaker
 * Julian Assange, writer, hacker & activist
 * Wang Dan, leading Tienanmen dissident & historian
 * Suelette Dreyfus, writer & academic
 * Ben Laurie, internet security expert
 * Tashi Namgyal Khamsitsang, Tibetan exile & activist
 * Xiao Qiang, Chinese human rights activist
 * Chico Whitaker, Brazilian social justice advocate
 * Wang Youcai, founder of the Chinese Democracy Party & physicist

Contact

 * Web: www.wikileaks.ch (active link as of 12 July 2011)

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